Daniel Rowe is responsible for developing the RAI’s academic programming, coordinating the RAI-Kinder Institute summer school, and overseeing visiting fellows.
He is a historian of the twentieth century United States and wider world with a special interest in political economy, policy, urban, and labour history. His forthcoming book, State of Development: Preserving the American Economic Century in an Era of Anxious Capitalism (Columbia University Press), is a history of the overlapping industrial and financial crises of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has published articles on US politics in the 1980s, state-market relations, and 1960s liberalism. His next research project will examine the social history of several iconic ‘Rust Belt’ cities during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
He previously taught at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of Warwick, and the University of Sheffield. At Oxford, he teaches US History and Politics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Selected Publications
- ‘Local and Regional Countercurrents: Reagan Democrats and the Politics of the “Rustbelt”’, in Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock (eds), The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest (University of Kansas Press, 2020).
- ‘The Politics of Protest: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Vocal Minority, 1967-1974,’ PS: Political Science and Politics, April 2017.
- Co-author, ‘Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s America: The Legacy of a Professor-Politician,’ introduction to a curated article collection for PS: Political Science and Politics, April 2017.
Twitter/X: @dan_rowe1
